The Adventures of Laura and Sarah

Dinner of champions!
(Don't worry mom- its
grilled cheese not
toast!)

First we painted the living room! Laura is an amazing painter and mainly due to her, it only took us about six hours. So we spent the other part of our day running errands and my dad was wonderful and attempted to set up cable which failed (our outside line had come down-oops!) so we had to set up a maintenance call. But overall we felt very productive.







Friday we spent about four hours dealing with cable, then went to Jimmy John's for a delicious lunch.

Can I have it?

Ran a bunch of errands, and then decided to reward all our grown up effort with some puppy love!

As soon as we walked in the door, our friend called to say she had just arrived and that we should come by. So we went and helped her unpacked a little bit then went to another friends place, and by the time we got home we had been up and busy for 15 hours! Needless to say we slept well that night.

The next morning Laura and I got to eat breakfast on our beautiful porch while we waited for my mommy to come! We cleaned up the kitchen and bathroom. When my mom arrived she brought some tools that we needed to do some fix-ups. So being proud home renters we trimmed some branches, and by trimmed I mean hacked! We also made some cute curtains for the main windows in our house for a little more privacy.

Moving into a house has been overwhelming and exciting. But I absolutely love it!

*Joy of the day: Watching "What Not to Wear" with my housemate!

Little Dresses For Africa

While I was in Haiti one of my favorite parts was the little girl's orphanage. I loved painting their nails, playing with bubbles, running around and most of all being able to give them a little something to let them know that they are loved. One special thing that we were able to leave with them was handmade dresses from a group of women at our church! It was really neat to see the way that they were showing these little girls God's love even though they were thousands of miles away! These women never even touched Haitian soil and yet they made a difference!

Now it's my turn! My big hearted friend Brittany is leaving for Africa in a little over a month. She'll be serving the Lord their for several months, and I must admit that I am jealous! I would much rather be serving the Lord and his beloved people in one of his beautiful countries than in a stuffy classroom. So I am going to serve in the same way that the women of my church served along side of us in Haiti!


I found this adorable website called "Little Dresses for Africa." It has the directions on how to make the cute and simple pillow case dresses (and then if you follow their directions you ship them to a woman who will get them to little girls in Africa who need them). But I'm sending mine a different way! Miss Brittany will take the cute little dresses and give them to the little girls she meets while she's over there.

While I believe that everyone is called to serve, service looks different at different times. Making dresses is just as important as taking them across the world. No matter what you are doing, it's big and it will make an impact on someone's life. If it's a bottle of nail polish or painting a little girls nails for the first time,  or making a little dress or giving a little girl a brand new dress that she can be proud of, all of this to show that she is a beautiful daughter of God and that she is fiercely loved!

*Joy of the day: Praying over each of these dresses and for the little girls that will wear them!